>>81660508
>I can only imagine you disagreeing with me through your use of a political philosophy that inappropriately generalizes human nature as a whole.
Not so sure that's what my next line is.
>What is most likely to maximize happiness for individuals can be different from a group
If they're not both happy, you can safely assume either evil or inefficiency had happened.
>so I assume you aren't working from the angle of solving contradictions on a case by case basis and have something other than just maximizing happiness in mind when you say we ought to do good.
>I feel like I've seen you appreciate history and human struggle significantly more than I do. Yet if I had it my way we would be brains and mouths connected to food and an endless upply of dopamine for an eternity, if we had to exist. And I don't *think* you want that.
"People chase neurotransmitters" would exactly be a generalization of human nature.
What people really chase are states of experiencing. It's why druggies try out different subtypes of stimulants despite some giving more reinforcing "rewards", or why an addict turns on metacognition and drops his brain juice cope source out of disgust, or why countless spiritual practices each have different meditation practices getting you exactly different experiences, or why artists and directors try to differentiate and extract very specific microtypes of feeling for the viewers to integrate, and so on.
Basically, neurochemistry as people's scientific cores is so 19th century, it's all now quantum duality and qualia - millennia after introspective people had come to technically the same conclusions.

>>81660585
Take your meds, schizo.